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Headword:
Tonthoruzei
Adler number: tau,763
Translated headword: mumbles
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] speaks suspiciously, whispers, mutters softly[1] or utters secretly, or trembles while moving the lips.[2]
"As the multitude were muttering and growing angry, the general soothed them with prudent words."[3]
"And again as they were kindling rumor and trying to grumble, [he] said [...]."[4]
Greek Original:Tonthoruzei: hupoptôs lalei, psithurizei, êrema gonguzei ê lathra phthengetai, ê hupotremei ta cheilê kinôn. hupotonthoruzontos de tou plêthous kai aganaktountos, logois echephrosin ho stratêgos toutous emalasse. palin te throun hupexaptontôn kai tonthoruzein peirômenôn, ephê.
Notes:
cf.
tau 97, where the verb is spelled differently.
[1] Same or similar glosses in other lexica (references at
Photius tau376 Theodoridis), and in a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Wasps 613.
[2] cf. scholion on
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 683.
[3] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.7.3 (using a compound of the headword verb), on the Roman general Romanus, speaking to his over-confident troops during the Suania campaign in the summer of 589; cf. de Boor (122-123) and Whitby (81). On Romanus see
epsilon 3145 note. On Suania see
alpha 2811 note. Find related entries at
epsilon 3145 note.
[4] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable, but cf.
alpha 2718.
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Keyword: children
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 November 2013@00:47:25.
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